William Bao Bean

Managing General Partner at Orbit Startups

Speaker

William is Managing General Partner at Orbit Startups the first and longest running startup program in Asia and a Venture Partner at SOSV, the #4 most active venture capital investor in the world and #5 Asia/Rest Of World (2021, TechCrunch) with US$1.5bn in assets under management. Orbit provides hands-on support for growth, partnerships, fundraising and user acquisition combined with an initial investment package and millions available in follow-on funding from SOSV. Our focus is on digitalization across emerging and frontier markets to drive efficiency in ecommerce, fintech, media, health, education, and logistics. Orbit’s consumer ecosystem has helped our startups scale to 153m monthly active smartphone users. William joined Orbit and SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director supporting China investments. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings leading investments in China and South East Asia. William started his career in equity research most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was a top ranked analyst for Asia Internet and China Tech, Media and Telecom and worked on the IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft, eLong (Expedia China), OnMobile, Rediff and Infoedge Naukri.